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Without teaching you how modern monetary theory works, what the triffin paradox is and why a national reserve currency backed by petro operates and of course the ever present political grift off of taxpayer dollars...a simple answer will have to suffice.
Without government deficits the US and global economy will stutter and collapse.
Anyone who says they actually want to balance the budget is a liar or a fool. Clinton was both, but benefited from a extreme spurt of productivity that coinciding with a welfare reform gave a short lived surplus.